UFC on FOX 7 targeted for HP Pavillion in San Jose, CA on April 20

A UFC on FOX event planned for April 20 now has a city and venue.
Multiple sources close to the event on Wednesday told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., is targeted to host the event, which is expected to be UFC on FOX 7.

As of yet, no matchups are confirmed for the fight card.

The UFC's most recent trip to San Jose came this past July with UFC on FUEL TV 4, which featured a middleweight headliner between Mark Munoz and Chris Weidman. The event drew a reported 4,250 fans for a live gate of $163,485 and drew a peak of 291,000 viewers on FUEL TV.

San Jose also is the longtime home of soon-to-expire Strikeforce, which held 15 MMA events at the venue.

Several of Strikeforce's breakout stars, including lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez, middleweight champ Luke Rockhold, heavyweight grand prix champ Daniel Cormier and ex-lightweight champ Josh Thomson, all reside in the Bay Area. All are expected to migrate to the UFC following the promotion's final event, which takes place Jan. 12 at Chesapeake Energy Center in Oklahoma City.

In November, the UFC announced its 2013 FOX event schedule, which begins with UFC on FOX 6 on Jan. 26 in Chicago. Along with the April 20 date for UFC on FOX 7, July 27 is the targeted date for UFC on FOX 8 and Dec. 14 is planned for UFC on FOX 9.

Mir is a step up in competition for DC, and someone with decent striking & a great ground game for DC to get more experience against.

Mir will not be able to take Cormier down and Cormier will knockout Mir. Kind of hard to submit people standing in fights. Not impossible but it will not happen here. IMO....Cormier is the most underrated fighter in MMA. 2013 will be his year to establish himself as an elite p4p fighter and possible UFC champion.

Cormier has stated that he will fight Frank Mir before going to 205. You do remember Mir owned Nelson right? so how is that a better match?

jonnyRico you know MMA math doesn't work. Mir, Roy and Cormier all bring different skill sets & styles to the table. Pettis beat Benderson and lost to Guida. Guida lost to Benderson and beat Pettis.

I dont know about owned. They both looked awful. Cormier isn't gonna gas like Nelson. I think it's a better match,because Roy has an iron chin, heavy hands like Cormier, very good BJJ like Mir, but he has wrestling something Mir doesn't have. Neither Nelson or Mir are gonna takedown Cormier, but Nelson has the chin Mir doesnt have and heavier hand to win the fight.

Mir will not be able to take Cormier down and Cormier will knockout Mir. Kind of hard to submit people standing in fights. Not impossible but it will not happen here. IMO....Cormier is the most underrated fighter in MMA. 2013 will be his year to establish himself as an elite p4p fighter and possible UFC champion.

jonnyRico you know MMA math doesn't work. Mir, Roy and Cormier all bring different skill sets & styles to the table. Pettis beat Benderson and lost to Guida. Guida lost to Benderson and beat Pettis.

I dont know about owned. They both looked awful. Cormier isn't gonna gas like Nelson. I think it's a better match,because Roy has an iron chin, heavy hands like Cormier, very good BJJ like Mir, but he has wrestling something Mir doesn't have. Neither Nelson or Mir are gonna takedown Cormier, but Nelson has the chin Mir doesnt have and heavier hand to win the fight.

You must have not seen the fight if you say "I dont know about owned". Mir absolutely dominated him in the wrestling aspect and mounted him on occasions, he out struck Nelson, out clinched him, and out lasted him with better cardio. Mir sure as hell didn't look awful.

Mir is a total better fighter than Nelson in every way besides the ability to take a punch. He's a tougher fight than Nelson hands down.

You must have not seen the fight if you say "I dont know about owned". Mir absolutely dominated him in the wrestling aspect and mounted him on occasions, he out struck Nelson, out clinched him, and out lasted him with better cardio. Mir sure as hell didn't look awful.

Mir is a total better fighter than Nelson in every way besides the ability to take a punch. He's a tougher fight than Nelson hands down.

Bottom line is neither Mir or Nelson are taking Cormier down. Which means they aren't gonna be submitting Cormier either. So in a stand up battle against Cormier I'd take the guy with the granite chin and heavy hands.

Mir will not be able to take Cormier down and Cormier will knockout Mir. Kind of hard to submit people standing in fights. Not impossible but it will not happen here. IMO....Cormier is the most underrated fighter in MMA. 2013 will be his year to establish himself as an elite p4p fighter and possible UFC champion.

Cormier is under-rated? All we hear is how good he is & how he's going to beat everyone.

I'm not saying that Mir will beat him, but Mir is a better striker than anyone he's faced and if Cormier takes him down, he'd be facing the most dangerous submissions in HW MMA.

While there's no doubt that Cormier has shown pretty good striking (especially considering his inexperience), Mir has shown he's got pretty decent striking before (first ever person to TKO Big Nog, knocked down Kongo before subbing him). Lets not pretend that Cormier is some sort of KO artist either, he lands 124 strikes for every 1 knockdown he has.

Cormier is under-rated? All we hear is how good he is & how he's going to beat everyone.

I'm not saying that Mir will beat him, but Mir is a better striker than anyone he's faced and if Cormier takes him down, he'd be facing the most dangerous submissions in HW MMA.

While there's no doubt that Cormier has shown pretty good striking (especially considering his inexperience), Mir has shown he's got pretty decent striking before (first ever person to TKO Big Nog, knocked down Kongo before subbing him). Lets not pretend that Cormier is some sort of KO artist either, he lands 124 strikes for every 1 knockdown he has.

That's what they said when he faced Barnett. And secondly, Werdum is the most dangerous HW in mma (imo).